More recently, Mitt Romney was infamously in the news for his ill-timed $2 million dollar campaign event in London which came at the heels of his unwise statements about his host's missteps in preparing for the 2012 London Olympic Games. Instead of burnishing his foreign policy credentials as he had hoped, he gained the hatred of the British Press and was dismissed by the Buffon-like Mayor of London in front of a crowd of young Brits pumped up at the prospect of their home country hosting the Games. During his turn on the world stage, Romney got plenty of criticism literally every step of the way for his verbal diarrhoea of "disconcerting " and misplaced remarks on "culture ," whether it be British or Palestinian.

The Democratic Party has also held numerous events in cities like London and Paris in which folks as diverse as Obama Campaign General Counsel Bob Bauer and Vogue Editor Anna Wintour have served as surrogates for Obama at fundraising events.

During the 2008 election season, American expats around the world were all fired up and turned out in record numbers to vote during the November elections. But what did we get in return? We got FACTA. We got treated like tax dodging criminals by the IRS. And we are getting shunned by foreign institutions wary of having the US government peering into their books and dictating the way that they conduct their businesses simply because they have just one US citizen as a client or could have a US citizen indirectly as a client.

FACTA is the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act of 2010, a way for the US government to increase revenue collection from foreign sources and combat those Americans who hide their wealth away in Switzerland protected by Swiss bank secrecy laws. It puts a burden on every non-US financial institution around the world to dig through their records and look for any indicia of US residence and/or citizenship among their clients and file reports with the IRS or else get penalized by having 30% of their US source income impounded by the IRS. The threat of having 30% of one's income withheld will make any financial institution dance to the beat of the US government's drum. But the consequence is that, in essence, what Congress, through FACTA, is telling American expats is that you are guilty until proven innocent and that one bad apple does indeed spoil the whole bunch. Reports abound about Americans being denied banking and financial services which has negative consequences for American businesses around the world and job creation in the US.